Hacker News: namuol

New comment by namuol in "iPhone Duo"

namuol — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:33:11 +0000

$2000.

$2000.

New comment by namuol in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

namuol — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:15:14 +0000

> this is ambiguous even to OpenAI

I took their words as “can neither confirm nor deny”, in the that they are _presenting_ it as ambiguous, but I suspect it’s… less ambiguous to OpenAI.

New comment by namuol in "Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]"

namuol — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:41:52 +0000

He did some work for The Witness and wrote some nice technical blog posts about it [1].

I don’t know the extent to which he contributed beyond that, but he is therefore by some reasonable definition _a_ game developer.

[1] the-witness.net/news/author/casey/

New comment by namuol in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

namuol — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:02:06 +0000

Neat!

Not sure if this is meant to be practical, but I think this would work better if the upcoming turn was centered in the view once it’s within a certain range, as a kind of anticipation. This helps prepare for the jarring shift in perspective and, in case there’s multiple turns in short succession (as there might be when exiting a highway, for instance), gives you a visual heads-up about what’s next.

New comment by namuol in ""Solving a largely imaginary user goal""

namuol — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:43:34 +0000

There’s no better way to ruin usability than to hide how the system actually works in an effort to make it “easier”.

Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler. Anything else is deceptive.

New comment by namuol in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

namuol — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:25:29 +0000

With or without AI, if I had to talk about EBITDAs for my job, I too would have to take up knitting to feel like I’m doing something real. I’m sure Charlie Munger would agree.

New comment by namuol in "xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout"

namuol — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:18:05 +0000

On the scale of injustice, these are cosmically distant crimes.

New comment by namuol in "Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks"

namuol — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:32:50 +0000

> Drone and defense teams get boards back in 7 days

New comment by namuol in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

namuol — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:53:37 +0000

What’s the speculation about what leaked? Are we talking about next-gen on-device neural accelerators or something along those lines?

New comment by namuol in "qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work"

namuol — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:23:42 +0000

So just an accelerated version of the standard UI design trends cycle (which is bad).

New comment by namuol in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

namuol — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:18:31 +0000

I will continue to ignore the benchmarks.

New comment by namuol in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

namuol — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:51:48 +0000

Can someone please explain how these models aren’t just fine tuned for benchmarks? I’m not plugged in to this space much but it seems like such an obvious problem…

New comment by namuol in "The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings"

namuol — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:05:26 +0000

If they made glasses that did this I might buy them. I don’t need to look at my phone to get motion sickness, but if I do it’s almost guaranteed. It really depends on the driver, though.

New comment by namuol in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

namuol — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:41:59 +0000

I don’t think the comparison is fair. Deep Blue was an opponent in a highly bounded game. Mathematics has no bounds, and modern agents are specifically designed and trained NOT to be opponents.

New comment by namuol in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

namuol — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:03:03 +0000

Would Terrance Tao still be a renowned mathematician if he grew up with ChatGPT?

New comment by namuol in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

namuol — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:51:21 +0000

> No one actually pays attention to the details of music videos any more. It’s visual chewing gum at best.

Hilarious to hear someone in industry blame their audience for the commodification of the medium. Is every industry like this? Surely nobody goes into creative fields thinking “I can’t wait to feed the masses slop!” Who’s killing our spirit?

New comment by namuol in "'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'"

namuol — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:16:28 +0000

I suspect many HN commenters would be surprised to learn just how much the general public are on the side of these activists, condoning if not outright applauding their actions.

New comment by namuol in "We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes"

namuol — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:21:38 +0000

Your generalizations are less creative than the output of an LLM from 4 years ago.

New comment by namuol in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

namuol — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:07:56 +0000

Ugh, that’s infuriating to read, if not at all surprising. This sounds at once totally over-engineered (in the modern day, negative sense of the word) while being simultaneously under-engineered (in the traditional sense).

New comment by namuol in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

namuol — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:29:12 +0000

I share your theory about micro usb, yeah. I know it’s not cost savings, it’s just lazy/ignorant. If they’re changing the footprint on the board for a type-c port, they can add some smd resistors.